Sources: the Pentagon is in talks to lend ~$5B to neocloud startup Fluidstack, which is being advised on its loan application by Palmer Luckey's Erebor Bank
Fluidstack, an AI infrastructure company, is being advised on the loan by the bank started by Palmer Luckey, an early supporter of Donald Trump
Sources: the Pentagon is in talks to lend roughly $5B to neocloud Fluidstack; Fluidstack is being advised on its loan application by Palmer Luckey's Erebor Bank
Fluidstack, an AI infrastructure company, is being advised on the loan by the bank started by Palmer Luckey, an early supporter of Donald Trump
Sources: Coatue formed Next Frontier in 2025 to buy land for data centers; Next Frontier has a JV with neocloud Fluidstack that has raised $5.7B via junk bonds
Sources: Coatue formed Next Frontier in 2025 to buy land for data centers; Next Frontier has a JV with neocloud Fluidstack that has raised $5.7B via junk bonds
Philippe Laffont's firm has launched Next Frontier, whose facilities will be meant for AI companies including Anthropic
Sources: AI cloud infrastructure provider Fluidstack is in talks to raise ~$1B at an $18B valuation; source: it raised at a ~$7.5B valuation earlier in 2026
Sources: AI cloud infrastructure provider Fluidstack is in talks to raise ~$1B at an $18B valuation, up from $7.5B when it raised money earlier in 2026
Sources: Fluidstack withdraws from a €10B, 1GW AI data center project in Bosquel, France, and a Mistral-tied project south of Paris, as it pivots toward the US
Cloud-computing startup Fluidstack Ltd. has pulled out of a high-profile €10 billion ($11.5 billion) …
Hut 8 partners with Fluidstack to build an AI data center in Louisiana for Anthropic, backed by a 15-year, ~$7B lease, starting with 245MW of computing capacity
Hut 8 (HUT.O) has signed a deal valued at about $7 billion to lease a data center in Louisiana, it said on Wednesday …
Anthropic plans to spend $50B on a US AI infrastructure buildout, starting with Texas and New York data centers in partnership with Fluidstack, opening in 2026
Anthropic announced plans Wednesday to spend $50 billion on U.S. artificial intelligence infrastructure buildout, starting with custom data centers in Texas and New York.
Sources: Fluidstack, which wants to build a €10B AI data center in France as part of Macron's €109B data center pledge, is in talks to raise a ~$200M Series A
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